The Joe Wilson "You Lie!" was truer than he thought... - Granite Grok

The Joe Wilson “You Lie!” was truer than he thought…

 “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what. My view is that health-care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what’s broken and build on what works.”

– President Obama, June 2009, to the AMA

 Well, once again, we see the Progressive / Socialist lie (glad to see that Steve remembered Joe Wilson’s “YOU LIE! during the SOTUA).  And it was a lie:

[A]ccording to health care analyst Bob Laszewski, about 19 million people are currently in the individual health insurance market and 16 million of them are going to lose their current plan thanks to Obamacare.

Now many of those people will qualify for tax payer subsidies that will help them afford the higher premiums. But how many people that currently have individual health insurance will qualify for any help?

Well, according to a recent Kaiser Study, that number is less than half. Just 48 percent of people now buying their own insurance will be eligible for a tax credit that will help protect them from sticker shock.

That’s 8 million Americans who, like Deborah Cavallaro will be “infuriated because I was lied to.”

And for those Progressives whose mantra is that we should EMBRACE Big Govt because non-partisan technocrats, who have our best interests at hears would NEVER LIE to us, here’s this:

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”…

And those policies were studied in detail and the regulations were SPECIFICALLY written to make sure that they would never be grandfathered.

“This says that when they made the promise, they knew half the people in this market outright couldn’t keep what they had and then they wrote the rules so that others couldn’t make it either,” said Robert Laszewski, of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a consultant who works for health industry firms.

They knew in 2010 – and said nothing.  This is the Big Government that we can trust?  Obama lied, his HHS Secretary lied, their Obamanaughts lied, the Democrats lied.  Lied over and over and often and often.  Right up to the day that Healthcare.gov opened.  And afterward, too.

They lied and lied.  This is government that we should Trust?

Trust nothing – these folks are no better than used car salesmen and ambulance chasing lawyers.  Socialists keep telling us that socialism is good for us but that the right people have just never been in charge.  Well, they are showing us they aren’t “The Ones” either – and should prove that socialism is a failed philosophy.  You may hate the Free Market (what we have left of it), but like Democracy, it’s still better than anything else.

At least when an insurance company screws me over, I can go to another one.  Can’t say that about Government…

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